THERE were lots of happy faces and celebrations at Benton Park School as students collected some impressive GCSE results.

In an unprecedented year of upheaval almost a quarter of the grades awarded were at grade 7 or above with over 80 per cent of all grades at 4 or above. More than twenty students achieved at least one of the new top grade of 9, including one student with an outstanding ten grade 9s.

Among the students who were celebrating these top achieving grades were Estera Ulrich-Oltean, Abby Eccles, Lauren Webster, Hasan Ahmad, Joel Cargill, Lola Kinard, Catherine Balshaw, Maggie Nott, Laura Pester, Emily Jones, Louise Willoughby, Ellie Hargreaves, Archie Bingham, Joseph Clancy and Natalie Seddon.

Headteacher, Delia Martin said: "Our young people have done exceptionally well. I feel incredibly proud of how they, along with the staff, have coped with the demands of these reformed GCSEs. The new qualifications are harder than their predecessors and our students have risen to the challenge and dealt with it showing maturity and resilience. The results are testament to all their hard work and are very well deserved. I would like to wish them well as they move onto the next stage of their educational journey and look forward to welcoming the majority of our students who will be embarking on their A Level studies at our Sixth Form in September”

Results

H Ahmad 11/0; I Aitken 11/0; Z Akram 3/6; C Armstrong 10/0; F Aslam 11/0; S Aslam 5/4; G Asquith 5/4; A Auty 11/0; C Balshaw 11/0; A Barker 0/8; C Barker 3/6; C Beer 7/2; R Bennett 2/7; A Bingham 10/0; A Binks 10/0; K Birro 6/3; A Black 7/2; E Bolton 9/0; G Bootland 0/9; T Boughton 10/0; F Bower 10/0; T Bowman 8/1; K Bradbury 4/5; R Brady 6/3; C Brown 3/6; J Burton 6/3; L Butler 8/1; C Callaghan 1/8; J Cargill 10/0; G Carrington 9/0; T Cattermoul 9/0; C Chappel 0/8; L Churchill 9/0; J Clancy 10/0; H Cocksedge 0/9; A Cook 1/7; D Creswick 1/8; A Cronshaw 7/2; J Cunniffe 1/7; F Dabill 10/0; I Date 8/2; L Dawson 3/6; R Dean 1/8; C Delaney 2/7; K Kaur 10/0; J Donnelly 9/0; A Dunne 2/7; K Dutton 10/0; M Eaglen 4/5; A Eccles 12/0; J Edwards 0/9; J Ellis 10/0; O Entwistle 8/1; J Evered 10/0; E Exner 10/0; A Farnell 9/0; E Farr 9/2; I Farrar-Thompson 7/2; L Firth 0/3; S Flannery 9/0; J Flower 7/3; D Ford-Starbuck 0/9; L Forey 10/0; N Forey 9/1; P Foster 9/1; L Gardner 4/5; I Gaster 5/4; L Gidlow 10/0; C Gill 3/6; M Girt 11/0; A Glover 6/3; L Glover 5/4; L Greenwood 2/7; L Habib 10/0; L Hainsworth 3/6; L Halliday 4/5; C Hamer 10/0; A Hamza 0/2; C Hardcastle 1/8; E Hargreaves 10/0; J Harris 10/0; M Harrison 10/0; H Hattersley 10/0; C Hatton 0/9; G Hayward 9/0; B Headley 10/0; V Herbert 9/0; B Hird 6/3; B Hitchcox 10/0; M Hodges 10/0; O Hodgson 5/4; L Holdsworth 9/1; A Holmes 9/0; K Holmes 7/2; A Horne 9/1; A Howson 1/8; R Hussain 7/2; K Iqbal 0/9; S Jacques 3/6; D Johnson 8/1; E Jones 11/0; L Jones 2/7; A Jowett 10/0; N Kane 10/0; P Kaur 10/0; S Kaur 0/9; M Kay 10/0; J Keighley 3/6; L Kinard 11/0; S Leath 4/5; A Lee 2/7; C Lennie 8/1; O Bailey 8/1; R Lewis 0/9; P Lindsay 9/1; A Lloyd-Parry 9/0; A Long 5/4; V Lou 0/9; A Maloney-Young 10/0; J Mann 3/6; F McAvan 0/2; M McDonald 7/2; L McDonnell 4/3; A McKay 9/0; B Midwood 8/1; E Miller 9/0; J Moule 5/5; A Mulley 8/1; N Nadali 9/0; H Newlove 9/1; A Newton 2/7; M Nott 10/0; T Oakley 5/4; A O'Connor 5/4; D Parmar 10/0; L Patrick 9/0; I Pawson 5/3; M Pearson 10/0; A Peel 6/3; J Pereira 8/1; R Perigo 1/8; L Pester 11/0; E Powell 9/0; J Pullan 9/0; E Raven 6/3; A Reed 5/4; F Rennie 9/0; J Restall 9/0; G Reynolds 10/0; T Rhodes 8/1; B Richardson 1/8; H Richmond 1/8; A Riquelme 2/7; M Roche 8/1; M Rosendale 0/9; K Roy 8/1; O Sadler 9/0; J Samra 1/8; J Samra 7/2; C Sanderson-Reeday 8/1; S Sangha 11/0; J Saunders 4/5; J Schofield 10/0; C Scott 10/0; N Seddon 10/0; E Shackleton 5/4; L Sheard 8/1; A Skipsey 7/2; F Slater 2/7; J Smith 10/0; J Smith 9/0; J Smith 10/0; M Smith 4/5; N Smith 2/6; R Smith 6/3; B Sornkhamkaew 3/6; M Spackman 10/0; G Spencer 0/6; G Stead 9/1; I Summerscales 8/1; R Sweeney 1/8; I Symons-Barugh 9/0; A Thompson 7/2; H Thompson 2/7; S Thompson 4/5; L Thompson-Sadler 0/9; B Thornton 3/6; M Thornton 10/0; J Towler 0/8; H Townsend 8/1; W Trevarrow 6/3; E Ulrich-Oltean 12/0; N Utley 8/1; H Vernam 3/6; Z Waggitt 9/1; A Waite 8/1; M Walker 5/4; C Walton 8/1; F Warren 9/0; L Waters 4/5; A Watts 0/8; S Webb 7/2; L Webster 11/0; C Westman 3/6; J Whitaker 8/1; A Whitaker-Keating 9/0; E White 4/4; L White 6/3; A Whiteley 8/1; J Whitley 10/0; H Widdop 9/0; A Wilkinson 1/0; C Wilkinson 1/8; B Wilks 0/8; M Willis 0/8; L Willoughby 11/0; L Wilson 9/0; T Wilson 10/0; A Windsor 8/1; R Winterburn 10/0; K Wood 4/5; S Wood 3/6; Z Yasir 8/1; L Yeadon 1/8; R Yeadon 8/1; E Yewdall 7/2; H Younas 8/1;